Posted by Mark Adams on 11/10/05 23:37

Mark Adams wrote:
> Alan J. Flavell wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Mark Adams wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Simple problem, but might mean a major misconfiguration in Apache.
>>
>>
>>
>> Which apache would that be? See the next question.
>>
>>
>>> I have a simple custom error page on my LAN which I have posted here on
>>> another site for your reference (sans graphic)
>>> http://adamslan.shyper.com/302.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Please make clear whether you are reporting misbehaviour on the site
>> where you are furnishing this thing for alt.html's inspection, or only
>> on the site which we haven't seen. If it's the latter, then I think
>> we have insufficient evidence to be able to tell you what's what.
>>
>
> Fair criticism Alan. The file that you are viewing at
> http://adamslan.shyper.com is simply posted so that folks like you can
> access the html. The problem behavior occurs on my local LAN which you
> can't, and won't see. As near as I can tell the file show up reliably
> from adamslan.shyper.com which implies to me that the code is fine and
> this is an Apache config. error.
>
>>
>>> The problem with this file, and I haven't seen it with any other
>>> files, is
>>> that this thing will display correctly one time after it has been
>>> edited or
>>> Apache has been restarted. Thereafter, it displays only the source
>>> code.
>>
>>
>>
>> Presumably you're not displaying this page for its own sake, but as a
>> custom error page? So, retrieving it for its own sake might not be a
>> comparable action to what happens when it's used as a custom error
>> page. How, exactly, are you using this thing - are you displaying it
>> *as* a custom 302 error page, or are you configuring the server's
>> redirection so that it's meant to redirect *to* this page? Or to put
>> it more simply, "please show us the relevant configuration lines".
>
>
> Correct. It is a redirection from squidGuard. It show up when invoked
> by the last stanza of squidGuard's config file on my server
> (IP=192.168.1.105):
>
> acl {
> default {
> pass !ads !aggressive !audio-video !drugs !gambling !hacking
> !porn !violence !warez all
> redirect 302:http://192.168.1.105/302.html
> }
> }
>
> It might be worth noting that I can't get anything to happen when I
> invoke the serve by its hostname (i.e. http://shuttle/302.html). Now, I
> just barely got squidGuard working and I'm totally new to it. From my
> reading of the docs, this is an acceptable way to spark a custom error
> page. If not, you're welcome to tip me to a better one.
>
>
>> Finally, since you haven't named a browser yet, the sceptics amongst
>> us are going to assume you only checked it in MSIE. How about being a
>> bit more specific about what you tried, with what, what you expected,
>> and what in fact you saw?
>>
> Interestingly, I haven't tried it in IE. Hang on...
>
> Okay, it works under IE.
>
> Interestingly, it works now under Firefox 1.0.7 and Konqueror 3.2.3 as
> well. It does not work under Netscape 7.2. So, it is an intermittent
> problem. Oh boy.

And now I notice it's not working under Firefox 1.0.7 on my Windows
client. The same client it DOES work on under IE.

Frustrating.

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Mark E. Adams, 2004 -- drop the "dot" to email me.
http://adamslan.shyper.com

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